“The copyright of authors,” Madison wrote, “has been solemnly adjudged in Great Britain to be a right of common law. The right to useful inventions seems with equal reason to belong to the ...

The U.S. Constitution put in writing how the government of the United States should operate. Read on to find out who signed ...

Adams, whose Federalists favored closer ties with Great Britain, was accused of backing a return to monarchy. Jefferson was accused of plotting to destroy the Constitution. Democratic-Republican ...

Americans learn about the document in school, but there are some lesser-known facts about the Declaration of Independence ...

Now that the right has abandoned the Founders, the Harris-Walz campaign has the chance to flaunt this winning rebrand. They should take it.

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Few Australians read our Constitution, although I am sure the ... events in the coming days can we welcome him as King of Great Britain, deliberately ignoring the constitutional reality that ...

These eloquent political documents encouraged Americans to adopt the newly-written Constitution and its ... Colonies during the Revolution, over Great Britain. These ideas represented a departure ...

Forging unity is the ongoing work of American life. After an election, after an arduous legislative process, after more than ...

In 1853, the government adopted a national constitution that promoted a free ... owed much to a treaty signed in 1825 between Great Britain and the future nation of Argentina.

America has the world’s longest-lasting written constitution. It’s been through a lot—one Civil War, two World Wars, a Great Depression, and all the shocks of the early 21 st century.